Stop Romanticizing Violence
Watch most martial art and self-defense demos and you will see choreographed movement that looks more like an audition for a John Wick movie than training for a violent encounter.
Watch real violence captured by CCTV and you see fear, chaotic, wild-flailing movement…
Real violent encounters are incredibly different than how we tend to see them through the dojo or sport filter.
We Need To Stop Romanticizing Violence.
I love martial arts, but I don’t confuse the art with the martial.
Take a look at what’s going on in our streets.
Today's sudden encounters are not duels or contests - they aren't cooperative training drills like how we practice and learn technique.
The amount of brazen, disrespectful behavior is escalating in the streets and conventional martial practice is NOT enough.
If you’re a martial artist, combat sport athlete, or reality-based self-defense expert, you may have the physical tools, but there's more to learning self-defense than the physical skills.
Remember, “the mind navigates the body”! And sudden violence often hijacks executive function!
Louder For The Folks In The Back
In a “sudden” high-stress encounter, the sudden fear spike triggers physiological responses to danger that can override access to our learned complex motor skills.
For The Record:
I am a martial artist.
I have studied and practiced wrestling, various martial arts, boxing, BJJ for decades.
I have also spent 40+ years studying violence and human responses to it.
I reverse-engineered a self-defense system based on this research.
My hope, my goal, is to inspire you to look at violence differently.
My mission is to help make every good human safer.
I abhor violence. It sickens me. It’s why I practice it. It's why I’m so vocal about it. It’s why, still 43 years after I began teaching self-defense, I am fully committed to helping make you, your family, team, and community safer.
Coach B
Just great Tony!